Non-Native Speakers Failing on English Medium Courses in Sweden languagemagazine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from languagemagazine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Authors of Swedish study caution that one experiment should not be used as basis for ‘radical overhaul’ of education policy but urge ‘more informed discussion’
Teaching in English Leads to Higher Drop-Outs, Poorer Results miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Worse results and more drop-outs when teaching is in English expertsvar.se - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from expertsvar.se Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Using English as the language of instruction in higher education has a marked negative impact on learning outcomes when it is not the students’ first language, according to a new study from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. When 2,000 Swedish students were divided up into English-language and Swedish-language versions of an introductory course in programming, those students who were taught in English obtained much worse results, and more dropped out of the course prematurely.